The three men travelling in the van driven by 52-year-old Houston resident Lorenzo Salgado Araujo before he was fatally shot have disputed the federal government's account of the incident.
One of the surviving passengers, Jose Trinidad Rojas, 51, wrote in a handwritten statement: 'That is a lie,' rejecting ICE's claim that Salgado Araujo had attempted to ram federal agents. Rojas argued that this would have been impossible because the agents were positioned alongside the vehicle.
